patches/packages/bash-3.2.015-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz:
Upgraded to bash-3.2 patchlevel 15. This is an optional upgrade
issued due to some problem reports concerning the use of the old-
style backquotes in scripts. For example `ls -l` might fail where
$(ls -l) works (though the real-world examples are more complex
than these, of course. I'd say if you're not having problems with
bash you're better off leaving it alone, but if you're getting an
error like “unexpected EOF looking for matching `”, you may wish
to give this package a try.
Thanks much to John Pate for helping with late-night debugging.